Siculo-norman

Duke Serra di Falco, has presented his work on the Siculo Norman Churches to the Institute—stating that he is collecting minerals, &c., for the Institute.

The conquering eagle is also found in Siculo-Norman art, for example in the royal palace in Palermo, where a vault contains a central image of an eagle which clutches a hare in its talons.

Among the considerable number of Siculo-Arabic and Siculo-Norman objects and monuments, clearly the body of painted ivories offers the most varied and ample material for comparison, both stylistically and iconographically.

But the finest example of the blending of the Saracenic and the Romanesque, with the rich ornamentation in mosaic carried out so effectively by the Siculo-Normans, is S. Maria dell'Ammiraglio,[…].

It is an attractive hypothesis, which we accept, that these Muslim influences played on the art of Amalfi during the great age of the Republic and not merely (as some think) after the city was subdued by the Siculo-Normans.

Thanks to the tolerant policy of both Rogers of Altavilla and both Williams, their successors, the many Muslims left on the Island could draw up their deeds in Arabic, the Greek-Byzantines in Greek, and the Siculo-Normans in Latin.